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In my school system (assuming my memory is correct) during 7th grade 'competitive athletics' wasn't a separate period. 7th grade football was flag football, and I think the athletes were even encouraged to play on an outside the school system football league (YFL=Youth Football League) which was tackle football simultaneously while playing school system flag football. That meant that in my every other day gym class we were mixed. There were athletes as well as the totally inept like me and the thugs (the guys who smoked cigarettes on the corner across the street from the school prior to the start of the day and at lunch). Starting in 8th grade all the athletes took a 6th period PE Class (6th period being the last period of the day) during which they practiced their sport and which led into after school practice. So from 8th grade on, the ones left in regular PE were all the non athletic kids-but there were a few who were still athletic although not playing team sports for whatever reason. I don't remember ever seeing a coach shower with us in regular PE. I don't know if they ever did after practice with the athletes.

Did you mean at the same time as you and your classmates?

Often we do. But that's the point. We do know these things. It would be one thing to hire him, if he had these beliefs, but he didn't have an X account to espouse them. It's an entirely different situation where you know what he is.

I would never have hired him as on the whole I don't/didnt hire straight tops-or straight bottoms-at least not knowingly (a few might have slipped through, and there was that guy from Philadelphia that I was mightily tempted too hire but ultimately didn't). And I am doubly glad of that now that I've read his Twitter. I'll have to disagree with your point of view-and not even respectfully. That kind of filth I saw on his Twitter (X) feed doesn't need to be promoted. Hiring him and giving him money just gives him the wherewithal to spread his filth. Why would you want to support that? And yes if I knew a repairman -even the best in the city with those kind of ideas-and I had a broken refrigerator-I'd chose a less skilled repairman. It comes down to how do we want the world to be. And why would you (or at least myself) want to actively support evil. But of course you're free to do what you like because. The interesting thing is Jaxton wouldn't return the favor.

For someone who maybe isn't sure he really wants to meet people, he has very revealing pictures. I wonder if he's waiting for a really rich client, or perhaps he gets a thrill from thinking about people lusting over him and knowing they can't have him.

Rentmen is so strange. It's one thing to have two different versions of the website. It's ridiculous that they don't always have the same information. I initially went to his ad on the rent.men version. There it doesn't say anything about the account being frozen. And it allows you to message him. Whether he would get the message either because the account is frozen on the RM side or from the escort side because he's frozen his account and isn't interested in looking at messages, I can't say. But @BuzzLiteQueer as you have correctly posted. The Rentmen.eu version. does show the ad to be frozen. By the way, I no longer see @Vegas_Millennial's original post where I first heard about the ad being possibly frozen

Closed in a what way? When I went to the ad, it didn't say expired.

Outside escorts and hookups I don't really have a lot of experience. The closest I've ever had to a boyfriend experience was an intense fbud relationship that lasted close to a year. But that was 9 years ago. So now I've met a guy. I wouldn't say I'm in love. But I like him a lot. It's not just sex as I've never been a sexual dynamo. I find that I also enjoy just us sitting next to each other watching TV with his head in my lap or my arm around his shoulders. But I find conversation difficult. 1) We're both retired. So there's no work to talk about. 2). He's into sports big time. I'm not. 3). If we were young, we'd probably be talking about our classes at school. But neither of us is young or talking classes. I have to admit that it's not only with this guy that I have trouble with conversation. I'm often at a loss when I'm with family. But there I feel the reason is that my life is so different from my family. I'm the only gay one. I'm the only adult in the family who's never been married or has a significant other. I'm the only adult without children. And now I'm the only adult of my generation without grandchildren. So what do I do with my new guy friend? I don't think the physical part is enough to sustain a relationship over a longterm

You do realize that PrEP with Truvada has been available since 2012. While obviously there can always be more research, it's been 14 years now. And from what I understand (although as I don't have the facts and figures available so I'm willing to be told I'm wrong), the incidence of new HIV cases is down in the USA. As for COVID-how for the average person could masking really have been detrimental? And for the record, I've received yearly COVID and Flu vaccines without anything I can associate as a long term health detriment due to them. As to original subject of this thread, the first official case of AIDS in the USA was 1981. I was 20. It's hard to remember back that far if I absolutely knew I was gay. I probably did and didn't want to admit it to myself. I knew the thought of having sex with a woman scared me because the thought still makes me uncomfortable. But even though I had inklings I was gay-I didn't want to be. So my inadvertent strategy that I employed -although not specifically to prevent AIDS-was total abstinence. This led to me being a total virgin until the age of 41. And with my first sexual (and lessons in kissing) experience with an escort in a hotel room (I think it was the Best Western) located in Kentucky right over the Ohio River from Cincinnati. The paradox occurs to me quite frequently that if at the time I had been braver about being gay, there's a good chance I wouldn't be here to contribute to this or any other topic in the Message Center today. And that while my dislike-I'll even say hatred-of being gay saved my life in my early 20's and 30's, it royally screwed up the life that it saved. And there are still repercussions for me today from being such a chickensh*t about accepting what I am. I'm more accepting of being gay than I ever thought I would be. But I doubt I'll ever be totally at peace with it. Still it's not all bad. As I said I'm more accepting than I ever thought I'd be. My close family knows-mother/brother/brother's wife/ and my sister-and they didn't ostracize me (I didn't really think they would-but before I told them there was always a niggling doubt in my mind). And I occasionally am able to meet guys for sex-or even more occasionally an actual date. In fact I've got a buddy situation over the last two months or so. I don't know where it's going to lead. But I enjoy spending time with him. So I guess all in all I'm glad abstinence saved me.

Other than my fantasies and dreams of course.

Corey was about 6 months older than his stepdad Patrick. But I had loved Corey since his days on 30 Something. I was sorry to hear of his passing.

The initial link is too old to work for me. So I'm re-posting it so others may view this muscle g-d. https://rentmen.eu/AxelRockham/#platinum

When I was hiring, I always wished I could find a non-straight versatile or bottom guy with this kind of physique.

You have to exchange your Gay 'Top' Card for a Gay 'Bottom' Card (forever). However we aren't totally heartless. On Leap Day every 4 years you get a 24 hour pass to be versatile.

I'm about 2 years old than @BuckCanucked. I graduated in 1979. In junior high -specifically 7th grade I remember they used to make us shower around a pole. I hated it as I was fat. In 8th and 9th grade we were still supposed to shower, but they weren't as strict at watching. And I think I usually got out of it. Same thing with PE in 10th grade at my high school-my last year to have to take it. But as for a coach showering with us-NEVER!! And I think I would have been shocked if they had. My Uncle had told me about swimming nude at the YMCA except on Family Days back in the 1930's to 1940's. And in the 1970's when he told me that, I thought that was weird too.